> Can spin_lock_irqsave and the disable_irq & spin_lock combinations be
> safely mixed, particularly with regards to the networking layer? This does
> not seem to be done anywhere in the kernel so I suspect that I'm trying
> to do something wrong/bogus ...

We do it on the 8390 and 3c509.

#ifdef __SMP__
                disable_irq_nosync(dev->irq);
                spin_lock(&lp->lock);
#endif       
                slow stuff

#ifdef __SMP__
                spin_unlock(&lp->lock);
                enable_irq(dev->irq);
#endif          

You need to allow for an IRQ coming in after the disable_irq happens. If its
already pending at the wrong moment on SMP at least it happens very very
occasionally.

Alan

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